0013 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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room, he was sitting on the front row of the spectators benches; that
during the course of the trial deponent saw the jury pass to the
jury box from the rear of the court room, the jury passed immediate-
ly by this deponent and also by a man, whose name is unknown to
this deponent, but who was a spectator in the court room, who was
sitting about three feet from this deponent, just across an aisle, no
one being between this man and deponent; as the jury passed this man,
at the time specified, this man took hold of one of the jurors, he
took the juror by the hand with one hand and grasped his arm with
the other hand and made a statement to him, said something to the
juror which this deponent did not understand sufficiently to be able
to quote, but this deponent says that he made some statement to the
juror while he had him thus by the hand and arm; he says that this
act was witnessed by Plennie Minor, so this deponent believes, for the
reason that as soon as this happened, the said Plennie Minor immediate-
ly came back to this man and threatened to put him out of the court.
Plennie Minor told this man that he, Plennie Minor, saw him, the man,
take the juror by the hand and say something to him; the man remonstra-
ted with Plennie Minor, and this deponent heard Plennie Minor repeat
to him that he, Plennie Minor, saw him, the man, speak to the juror;
Deponent further says that on two occasions, while he was sitting in
the court room at the trial, at one time while he was about six to ten
feet from the jury, this deponent heard yelling and cheering on the
outside of the house from the crowds collected outside; one of said
times was during Dorsey's speech. While this deponent does not say
whether or not the jury heard this cheering, he does say that he, the
deponent, heard it, plainly and distinctly and was within a few feet
from the jury at the time he heard it. He further says that on one
occasion he heard cheering in the court room; the Judge said that
unless the cheering stopped he would have to clear the court room
and to this Deputy Sheriff Minor replied that that would be the only
way he could stop the cheering in the court room.

B. M. Kay makes the following affidavit, deposing and saying
as follows: that he is a resident of the City of Atlanta, living at
464 S. Pryor Street; that on Saturday evening, August 23, 1913, about
6 or 6:30 o'clock P. M. he was driving his father's automobile down
South Pryor Street, going South; there being in the automobile with
him, his mother, Mrs. Rose Kay, and his brother, Sampson Kay; that as